Sprint Advantage

Test your big ideas in just 5 days

SURVIVAL OF THE QUICKEST

Design thinking isn’t new, but the pace it now needs to move at in a digital landscape in constant flux is.

When it comes to brilliant innovation, the answer is nearly always as much about quickly identifying the problem as it is about designing the solution. Waracle’s ‘Sprint Advantage’ is our proven approach to bringing your ideas to life quickly, so we can start to dig fast and deep and arrive at the solution quicker than you can say, “Go!”. As we’ve proven to the world’s most interesting innovators time and again.

5 DAYS, LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES

Kicking off with a dive into understanding where we’re headed, and continuing through a 5 day process of provocative and challenging explorations, the 5-day Sprint encompasses a combination of stone-turning, fact-finding and process-nailing that ensure we’re uncovering what we don’t yet know, what we need to know and how we’re going to get there. And when we’re done? Everyone leaves the room informed, aligned and empowered – all the way to the finish line.

Monday to Friday Sprint

Monday | Understand

No room for a case of the Mondays here. With coffee and cake non-negotiable, Day One sees us exploring exactly what it is we’re aiming for. Where do we want to get to? What does success look like? What are the challenges? It’s right here, right now that we lay down the gauntlet and nail what we’ll be working on during the next 4 days.

Monday

Understand

Tuesday | Sketch

Day Two is about investigation - and where we start feeling that itch of inspiration. The goal is to arrive at tangible, workable ideas quickly, and swiftly drive them forward - so we’ll want to look at what’s been tried, as well as what could be re-thought, enhanced or re-imagined. Then we’ll start sketching out the potential solutions that we believe can be brought to life as useful, value-add, desirable outcomes, and setting us up nicely for D-Day tomorrow.

Tuesday

Sketch

Wednesday | Decide

Here’s where we cut to the chase. With a pile of new ideas on the table that mix creativity, empathy and technology, we’ll vote on and prioritise the ‘very best’ of these to take to the prototyping and testing phase. Trust us, the excitement at this stage is palpable. Then, using the sketches that we created on Monday and Tuesday, together we’ll craft a step-by-step storyboard of the chosen solution so we can start ‘doing’ as quickly as possible.

Wednesday

Decide

Thursday | Prototype

Day Four is where it all gets real and we bring the hard work to life. To create incredible products, we need to rapidly build the prototype achieved by cross-pollinating our expertise (think design, technical, stakeholders) to create a convincing, functional, desirable solution that’s ready to test with users and customers. This is where it all gets very real. We’ll outline the test schedule and write the interview script then it’s all systems go.

Thursday

Prototype

Friday | Validate

The final day of the 5 day sprint - cake and coffee is a distant memory. Laser-sharp focus is the name of the game now, and it’s at this point we’re splitting the team into facilitators and testers, moving quickly to test, capture and learn from the user groups testing the prototype. Very rapidly, we’ll have a crystal clear view of what’s right with the solution, what’s wrong and what needs tweaking. Then, with a clear view of the road ahead, we’ll map out the next steps on the journey.